***DISCLAIMER: If the management company replies to my comment and claims it was resolved by their…read moreteam, know that it has not been!!! The truth is that nearing my move-out date, I wrote a detailed account of the experiences I discuss below, and sent it to the Briscoe management (along with names, dates, and pictures), giving them the opportunity to make things right. Never once during the hellish plumbing situation I dealt with in my time here was anyone at the Briscoe apologetic or made an effort to make things right. Instead, management attempted to pressure me to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to keep me quiet about my experiences here, and offered me $500 of hush-money. I did not take this money as I believe everyone should be warned about the business practices at this apartment complex***
My experience at the Briscoe was beyond abysmal, and I am thrilled to be out of such a mismanaged, dishonest, and unsafe place to live (someone was stabbed to death right next door, look it up if you don't believe me).
Bright-eyed and naive, I moved into the Briscoe in May of 2018. My time there began with an ant infestation that took weeks to fully resolve due to the maintenance team. By the end of the first month, I began to have plumbing issues that would plague me during my entire time at the Briscoe. My toilet began to clog with no warning and become unusable for a few days each month. I didn't want to have to create a maintenance ticket for them to fix it, as I knew response would not be the fastest anyway, so I would wait for the issue to go away on its own.
Eventually this issue escalated and my toilet was clogged more of the time than it was functional. Multiple times, I filed tickets and maintenance would close them, claiming the issue was "fixed." Usually within 24-48 hours my toilet would be unusable again. This resulted in many days of waking up at the crack of dawn to use the bathroom at Starbucks and chick fil-a, since I did not have access to a working toilet.
My issue escalated again, and I found myself literally wading through sewage on a daily basis. Almost every day, I would be woken up in the middle of the night to a gurgling sound and to find my bathroom flooded with sewage water and chunks of human feces. (See attached). Caught in and endless cycle of overflowing sewage, I was desperate. I made many calls to the front office and to maintenance, and was told over and over again that I must have been causing my own issues by using "unflushable wipes" (despite the fact that a plumber literally snaked a camera into my plumbing and found no such "unflushable wipes"...btw, I don't even use makeup removing wipes...) I communicated to the Briscoe office and maintenance teams that my issues had not been resolved, and that this environment was not safe for me to live in, but they did not take my issues seriously.
This caused me to live with non-working plumbing from May 2018 - March 2019. Almost a year. Imagine living in a $2100 a month apartment and not even having working plumbing for a year. Well, welcome to living at the Briscoe!
In addition to my plumbing issues, The Briscoe has shown utter disrespect for people with disabilities and has neglected to comply with laws and the Americans with Disabilities act. They do not enforce towing in handicap spaces, and even allow maintenance to park their golf cart in handicap spaces whenever they feel like it. When I've called the office to report that residents were illegally parking in the handicap space, I was told this "wasn't a big deal" by one leasing associate. Tell that to someone in a wheelchair who is unable to access their own home if the handicap spot is taken!
Also, don't bother doing a walk-through when you move out. Even if you get a clean check-out like I did, the Briscoe can still charge you whatever they want in the end. Cheers to tenant rights! They also will send over bills to collections even if you have already paid them and have proof you have done so (certified mail).